The
Dan Center
for Autism
Wellness and Recovery
Services
Provided:
|
The Dan Center
uses a holistic approach integrating multiple therapeutic services for
individuals while they are listening, combining techniques of sensory
integration, neurodevelopmental therapy, myofascial release, vestibular
therapy, and oral-motor stimulation under the supervision of a licensed
Occupational Therapist and a certified Tomatis practitioner. |
The Dan Center services
include:
 |
The Tomatis Listening Training
Program, as discovered
and researched by Doctor Alfred Tomatis of Paris, France, and sensibly
synthesized in Pierre Sollier’s book, Listening For Wellness, is an integral
component of The Dan Center training and treatment programs.
|
|
Sensory Integration
as articulated and researched by Dr. A. Jean Ayres, PhD, an Occupational Therapist. Sensory
integration therapy may involve:
1. Use of activities for
auditory, vestibular, tactile, gustatory, olfactory, visual and
proprioceptive stimulation
to challenge the individual's needs and help organize responses to sensory
input. Successful sensory integration may be exhibited in improved language
and emotional development . Others may show improvement in school as sensory
pathways improve functioning.
2. Use of the Sensory
Diet, by Patricia
Wilbarger, to help parents, providers and educators modify the environment
to manage the individual’s sensory issues.
3. Use of the Brain
Channel Assessment Tool (BCAT),
an assessment protocol developed by Christine Toledo, Occupational Therapist
and Dan Copes,
|
• |
to help parents,
providers and educators identify individual-specific sensory
processing
deficit(s) and its relationship to the child’s behavior and |
|
• |
to help parents,
providers and educators guide the individual to process complex sensory
information in a more effective adaptive response than previously
exhibited. |
|
|
FastforWord
is a series of interactive audio-visually adapted speech and speech sounds
geared to promote language skills development as individuals learn to
distinguish varying mechanisms of speech. Benefits noted in communication,
less delay in responding to verbal cues, listening and reading
comprehension, syntax and grammar among others.
|
|
Interactive Metronome.
This program helps ‘train the brain’ in planning, sequencing and processing
information through the use of repetitive interactive mobility patterns. The
March/April 2001 issue of the The American Journal of Occupational Therapy
highlighted more than four statistically
significant gains after using the IM program including: |
| •
|
Attention and Focus |
| •
|
Motor control and
coordination |
| •
|
Language Processing
|
| •
|
Reading and Math
Fluency |
|
•
|
Motor Control and
Coordination |
| •
|
Ability to Regulate
Aggression / Impulsivity |
|
Irlen Screening.
Irlen Syndrome is a visual perception problem exhibited in |
|
• |
light sensitivity |
|
• |
avoidance of eye contact |
|
• |
poor attention span
|
|
• |
difficulty reading with
high gloss white materials |
|
• |
poor reading abilities |
|
• |
strain or fatigue |
|
• |
poor figure-ground and
depth perception |
|
• |
headaches |
Irlen
screening helps manage visual perception concerns affecting the individual’s
reading capabilities.
|
Nutritional Analysis.
This program helps individuals with dietary concerns increase awareness of proper nutrition.
Nutritional Analysis helps identify which nutrients and
macronutrients are deficient or in oversupply.
|
|
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
This program involves intensive, repetitive one-on-one teaching which is at the
heart of ABA therapy planned to actively engage children who commonly have
communication, learning, socialization, and behavioral problems.
|
|
Occupational Therapy, Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Life Skills
Training. This program
promotes a functional end goal for achieved success over perceptual
deficits in vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, tactile, taste, olfactory
and auditory systems as well as deficits in praxis. This program teaches
meal preparation, laundry, internet order-taking
and order-placing, packaging, labeling, printing, mailing and many other
skills.
|
|
Learning Events
provided for parents, teachers, and the community.
For more information, click on
www.thedancenterforautism.com
|
|
